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| Clearing Up - Coast of Sicily Andreas Achenbach (PD) |
As the new year approaches, there is much to be concerned about in the world. And there's little enough the average person can do about it. All we can do is pay attention and (hopefully) point out when something is too egregious to tolerate. But to whom does one point this out to?
Our politicians have mostly been bought and paid for by the dark forces in this world. By dark forces I mean the greedy and evil people whose sole reason for being seems to be to accumulate ever more power and ever more money. (I suppose the latter leads to the former, for who without money has any power at all?)
New York City and Minnesota seem to have already fallen to the darkness, as have large chunks of Europe. At least that's what it looks like to this humble scribe. No matter where you live, your "representatives" have failed you badly. And they will continue to do so as long as there are no term limits.
Pay attention in the new year, do what you can to arrest this nonsense. Remember, your local politicians are just as bad as you think they are, it's not those "guys from your state," it's the politicians from every state in the union.
They don't serve you, they serve themselves on behalf of their dark master. Remember that at election time.
Throw them all out.
That is all ...
¹ Storm and stress (German). According to Google's online dictionary: a literary and artistic movement in Germany in the late 18th century, influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and characterized by the expression of emotional unrest and a rejection of neoclassical literary norms. Emotional unrest, oh yeah, we've got that in spades!
You could accelerate the effect just by stringing them all up.
ReplyDeleteThat wouldn't change anything. Until our schools go back to teaching the proper role of the Constitution, and the duties and responsibilities of the citizen, the same type of scallawags, snake oil salesmen, and other ne-er-do-wells will talk their way into power
Deletedearieme - You might be on to something there. Hang a few pour encourager les autres.
DeleteJoe - Disagree. Look at our history, local politics has always been a snake's nest. Congress has nearly always been composed of venal individuals whose primary goal in life was to stay in office and continue to feather their own nests. How a knowledge of the Constitution or the proper "role" of the citizen can fix this mess is beyond me.
DeleteA proper knowledge of right versus wrong, learned from parents, is necessary. It may be far too late for that now. Though I am encouraged by recent events concerning fraud in various places. Now if only those responsible go to prison for a long time will anything change. News of new revelations, new crimes being committed accomplishes nothing really. We need to see punishments for crimes committed.
As bad as the politicians are, the voters are the main problem. Too many are so naive, so gullible, so ignorant (pick 4) as to believe that they can vote themselves panem et circenses in perpetuity without consequences or cost.
ReplyDeleteOnce that path is taken, and the mobocracy comes to see the one loaf and one act as what they are owed, they start demanding more. Then the quockerwodgers, capons, and wethers in office promise more in order to stay in power, and claim that in order to deliver, they need to have more power and control, and, gee, you need to give up more of your freedom so we can make sure everyone gets exactly the same amount.
Give us nothing but criminals to pick from, we'll get criminals. Term limits is the immediate solution in my book. Keep the bastards out of office, don't let the low information voters keep putting them back in.
DeleteFar too many pols think of themselves or their party first and second, the rest of us comes in a distant third, we're the dupes to be fleeced. Living here in the Twin cities suburbs for the last thirty five years, the DFL believes the taxpayer owes them $$ and allegiance without question or debate. As Joe said....voters.... voters are the problem. State bureaucracy "administering/overseeing" payments to programs issuing $$ to those providing meals to children, paying $$ to those providing services to children with autism along with issuing $$ to those proving help to people having trouble finding and maintaining housing. Enough of my morning rant Sarge, I apologize.
ReplyDeleteRant on brother!
DeleteAs long as the people figure they can vote themselves "free Money" from "Other people" Politicians will continue to feed the mob beast and ride their votes into forever employment and GRIFT.
ReplyDelete“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill: 'Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.'
Prepare for stormy weather friends, it's going to get worse.
Another thing might be to limit the vote to only those who pay taxes. If you're on the dole, you don't vote, period, full stop. If we take the grifters off the voter rolls then they can't vote themselves more free stuff.
DeleteWell, Sarge, I don’t often wish you were wrong! Unfortunately, I don’t think you are. Also a Beatles song keeps playing in my head. Give you one guess which one it is!
ReplyDeleteI hope and pray we get through this!
juvat
P.S. wanna run for President?
I'd run if I thought it would make a difference.
DeleteSomehow we'll get through this, or the end times will arrive faster than we think.
**New York City and Minnesota seem to have already fallen to the darkness, as have large chunks of Europe.**
ReplyDeleteIt sure does look like that doesn't it? I've read parts of Michigan have become Muslim. But the news sources/reporting today is not what it was, it looks to me to be a lot of propaganda today & if the news IS going to lie to me about "some things", I have to not trust any of the news...
If I don't trust the news, how the heck do I know if Europe is REALLY like I'm seeing it, let alone Minnesota? That's true for just about everything I can't see in person with my own eyes! Today, if I didn't see it, it could be AI and someone's propaganda.
It's tough times when nothing you see in video or written as news can be taken as honest anymore.
Dearborn is a muslim town, though people "back home" (Saudi, Iraq, Iran, etc.) wouldn't recognize themselves in the denizens of that city. Too much glitter, I've been there, I saw no Godly people. None.
DeleteAnd yes, see WSF below, the internet is our samizdat, a way for us to share truth. AI is designed to control that, so, in my book, AI is evil.
Sarge, the biggest thing I try to keep in mind about such things (other than, ultimately, there is One in control who is far more equipped than I to navigate these things) is to represent myself and my beliefs well. There is nothing more off-putting than someone arguing for a point of view or world view who is clearly not the sort of person that one wants to be like.
ReplyDeleteI think that it's past the point of just doing the right thing in your own affairs. The great unwashed mob will demand their free stuff until there is nothing left, for anyone. It's time to clean house in DC and in the state capitals, toss the criminal politicians out on their ears!
DeleteI live in California Lite and see the rot everywhere. Perhaps the most galling aspect is the smug s.o.b.s act like they hold the moral high ground. Perhaps the internet is our samizdat, given the establishment efforts worldwide to censor content.
ReplyDeleteThe internet IS our samizdat. AI is being used to corrupt that. Am I the only one who sees that? Nope, others are seeing it as well. AI is just another tool in the shed for those wanting to enslave us.
DeleteLooks like a lot of like-thinking folks here. Or at least there is consensus on what we see as problems.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about the solutions, but the old adage about four boxes (soap, ballot, jury and cartridge) seems to have some truthfulness.
The most pressing need, IMHO, rests with the electoral process. Elections of dubious integrity, mobbed by low information voters are not what the founders envisioned. Vigorous debate and venomous vitriol towards opponents was the standard of their time, but then results were declared and winners ruled. We need to clean up the vote counting process to ensure it is accurate, and not tainted by fraud. We need to make voter registration closely scrutinized, and clean up voter rolls vigorously. Voting in person with ID at local polling places with few exceptions where requested absentee ballots are allowed for military, missionaries, or invalids; with ballots being counted only if received NLT election day.
One person, one vote. NO "ranked choice voting" crap!
Voter apathy is fine, just don't. Voter ignorance is a huge problem- look at some of the humorous "man on the street" interviews on TV- and THOSE PEOPLE VOTE! Voter ignorance is fed by our lousy education/indoctrination system controlled by corrupt leftist teachers' unions. After that, people are brainwashed by news media which are mostly hyperpartisan and deceitful liars, or as dumb as their viewers.
Okay, YMMV but that's my observation and cathartic commentary.
I look forward to tomorrow's rant-free diet of free ice cream from the Chant!
John Blackshoe
Well said, JB!
DeleteContinuing to talk about it is good, as is voting them out, but the more voices that speak out, the less they can hide. Kids like that Shirley guy in Minnesota is doing more than the entire main-stream media is.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
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